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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 开尔文

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
开尔文 kāi ěr wén - Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson)
- Kelvin (temperature scale)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 33,050 - -

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
kāi- to open (transitive or intransitive)
- (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
- to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run
- to boil
- to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
- (directional complement) away; off
- carat (gold)
- abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1er3wen2]
- abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1ben3], book format
ěr- variant of 爾|尔[er3]
ěr- thus
- so
- like that
- you
- thou
wén- surname Wen
wén- language
- culture
- writing
- formal
- literary
- gentle
- (old) classifier for coins
- Kangxi radical 67

Other Words Containing 开尔文

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
开尔文 - - 33,050 - -